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Scientists make up the bulk of the other award winners: Dee Boersma, a marine biologist at the University of Washington who found that the effects of climate change force penguins in Antarctica to swim 25 extra miles for food, putting them in greater danger of extinction. Ashok Gadgil, an environmental engineer at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, won for inventing simple, inexpensive water-purification systems and stoves for use in the developing world. Kirk Smith, a scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, was recognized for his work connecting indoor air pollution - mostly from cooking - to the premature death...
...When we made mistakes, the ‘Magnus and Tom’ team positioned themselves as the ‘anti-Voith Gadgil.’ They used our negative publicity to fuel the movement for a UC outsider ticket,” Voith wrote in an e-mail...
...incumbent’s track record as a plus, UC electoral history points to one other route by which an underdog could gain in the polls. In the UC election of fall 2005, the initial insider favorites—John F. Voith ’07 and Tara Gadgil ’07—finished last after a series of faux pas marred their campaign...
...Hoping to avoid the slip-ups of the Voith-Gadgil campaign, McGowan says she is keeping the Sundquist campaign “small and focused” with a core staff of 10 to 15 members, and ensuring that all volunteers are familiar with the election’s rules...
...most puzzling aspect of this phenomenon is that there is certainly no lack of viable female candidates. Last year, Tara Gadgil ’07 was considered a strong potential candidate while Lori M. Adelman ’08 was touted as this year’s possible female lead. Yet Gadgil ceded the spot to her running mate John F. Voith III ’07, and Adelman never even ran. Neither cited gender bias as their reason, yet the surprising lack of female candidates must beg the question of why exactly so few women put themselves forward...